Jeweler&#39;s tool.



No. 697,120. Patented Apr. a, |902;

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JEWELERS TOOL.

(Appliccio med June 7, 1901.) (No Model.)

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ROYAL II. XVADE, OF ELMA, VASHINGTON.

JEWELERS TOOL.

SPEGFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,120, dated April 8, 1902.

Application tiled June 7,1901. Serial No. 63,609. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROYAL l-l. WADE, acitizen of the United States, residing a1; Elma, in the county of Chehalis and State of lVashington, have invented a new and useful Jewelers Tool, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to jewelers tools,and has for its object to provide for carrying a plurality of bits of different sizes by a single handle and to arrange for conveniently bringing any of the bits into position for use. It is furthermore designed to provide for conveniently assembling the parts of the device and to exclude dust and foreign matter from the adjusting parts, so as to protect the same, and thereby insure the ready adjustment of the tool.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings,and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacricing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure lis a side elevation of a tool constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation with the adjusting and protecting sleeve in section. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional View. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a modified form of the invention. Fig. 6 is a central longitudinal sectional View thereof. Fig. '7 is a side elevation with the adjusting and protecting sleeve in section.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the iigures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the tubular body of the device, which is open at opposite ends and has its internal diameter decreased adjacent to ene end, so as to form an internal marginal shoulder 2, which is shown in Figs. 2 and G. At the middle of the tubular body there are provided the opposite corresponding longitudinal slots 3, which are best shown in Fig. el. The opposite ends of the body are externally reduced and formed into terminal bits 4 and 5, which are hollow and of different internal diameters. In the first illustrated form of the device the terminal bits are angular to form outside keys for application to the key-post of a watch, while the bits of the other form of the device are substantially circular and are designed to form punches for forcing the jewels out of a watch--m ovement,the tubular bits also forming sockets to span the jewels when they are being forced from the watch-movement.

XVithin each tubular body there is slidably mounted a stem 6, which is inserted through the larger end of the body and has one end portion reduced to form an annular shoulder 7 to abut'against the marginal internal shoulder of the body, and thereby limit the movement of the stein in one direction. In the key form of the device the opposite ends of the stem are further reduced to form terminal polygonal solid keys 8 and 9, of which, as lfor instance, the key 8 is larger than the opposite key. In the punch form of the device the terminals of the stem are provided with sockets 10 and ll of different sizes to span the jewels when being forced from the watchmovement. In both forms of the tool one end of the stem is normally projected, while the opposite end lies within the body, so as to leave the adjacent end of the body free for the use of the bit portion thereof, and by sliding the stem to its opposite limits the respective opposite ends of the stem and the body are brought into position for use, thereby providing for four different sizes of bits.

In the first or key form of the device the keyportion 5 is applied to the body after the stem has been inserted into the body and is of an internal diameter to slidably receive the key portion 9 of the stem, and thereby brace the latter.

For convenience in adjusting the stem each device is provided with a sleeve l2, which slidably embraces the body and covers the slots thereof, so as to exclude foreign matter therefrom,and a pin 13 is passed diametrically through the sleeve, the slots of the body, and also the stem, whereby the stem and sleeve are connected for movement of the former by the manipulation of the other. As shown in Fig. 3, a bowed leaf-spring 14: is fitted in one IOO of the slots of the body, so as to frictionally bear against the pin,'and thereby hold the sleeve and the stem against accidental movement at opposite limits thereof. In Fig. 7 the slot 3 has its opposite terminals provided with oppositely-directed notches or extensions l5, into which the pin 13 is designed to be turned, so as to lock the stem and sleeve at their opposite limits. Also the sleeve is provided with an intermediate external marginal enlargement 16 to form a finger-piece for convenience in manipulating the sleeve.

It will be understood that the hollow keys of the first form of the device are designed to embrace a key-post, while the solid keys are designed to be thrust into a hollow key-post as, for instance, in a stem-winding watchwhen the movement has been removed from the case. Although the solid keys are especially designed for application to the female key-pinions, it will of course be understood that the hollow keys may also be inserted into such pinions, thereby securing' additional sizes of keys. The terminals of the punches arel socketed, so that the marginal edges thereof may surround the jewelsy without touching the same, and yet bear against the settings thereof.

What is clailned is- 1. A jewelers tool comprising a tubular body open at both ends, and provided with a longitudinal slot therein, said tube having hollow bits formed on its opposite ends, an endwise-slidable stem mounted in said body and having terminal bits on its opposite ends, said stem being adapted to be projected at opposite ends of the body, a sliding sleeve mounted on said tubular body and adapted to cover said slot, and a pin connecting the sleeve and stem and working in said slot.

2. A tool of the character described, comprising a tubular open-ended body, having an intermediate longitudinal slot, and its opposite ends formed into hollow bits, an endwise-slidable stern mounted Within the body, and having .its opposite ends formed into terminal bits, the stem being constructed to be projected alternately at opposite ends of the body, an adj usting-sleeve slidably mounted upon the body and closing the slot, a pin connecting the sleeve and stem and working in the' slot, and an intermediately-bowed spring located in the slot and in frictional engagement with the pin to hold the stem against accidentalmovement at its opposite limits.

3. A jewelers tool comprising a tubular body open at both ends and having the internal diameter of one end decreased to form a marginal shoulder, said body having an intermediate slot therein, hollow bits formed on the opposite end of said tube, and provided with jewel-span ning sockets, an endwise-slidable stem-mounted in said body having one end reduced to form a shoulder, said shoulder being adapted to abut against said marginal shoulder on the body and limit the movement of the stem in one direction, terminal bits disposed on the opposite ends of said stem, a sliding sleeve mounted on said tubular body and adapted to cover said slot, and a pin connecting the sleeve and stem and Working in said slot.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ROYAL H. WADE.

Witnesses: y H. G. HILL, M. M. WAKEFIELD. 

